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Questions
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Learning Styles, Talent,
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Creative Thinking
Have You Tried This?:
Magic
Circle Sessions
Connecting with English
Language
Learners
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November
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Everyone Is Beautiful
Reading,
Writing, & Thinking
about Celebrating Differences
Questions
for Thinking Writers
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Lori
Mammen takes a look at the connection between thinking and writing and
offers a way to help your students learn how to develop questions for
particular writing tasks and audiences.
Learning
Styles, Talent, &
Creative Thinking
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more)
Donald
Treffinger discusses how learning style can serve as "a powerful set
of tools to help individuals understand their strengths and
interests."
Have
You Tried This?
Magic
Circle Sessions
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more)
See how
you can use circle sessions in your classroom in this issue's "Have
You Tried This?" by Leif Fearn.
Connecting
with English
Language Learners
Chatting
with Dr. Margarita González-Jensen
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more)
Dr.
Margarita González-Jensen talks with Dr. JoAnn Cleland about the
challenges in classrooms of children with multiple languages and cultures.
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Susan
Hanson's Thoughts from "For Love of the Earth"
"How
do teachers cultivate a loving relationship [between students and
the environment]? Not by shutting our eyes to what is wounded in
the environment, but by nurturing each child's innate
connectedness with nature through more age-appropriate activities.
Timing is everything.
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For
children ages 3-7, developing empathy for creatures and their
habitats is key. Focusing on nearby nature—the birds and animals
children see every day—is far more effective than calling their
attention to the plight of an endangered species far away. For
children ages 7-11, exploration is the best approach..."
[From
March 2002 issue]
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Susan
Hanson and daughter
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